Positives and Negatives for Ghana
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- Created on: 27-05-16 10:13
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- Positives and negatives for Ghana
- Location
- Coastal location good for trade
- 3 different climates = range of raw materials
- 2 main rivers
- low lying
- Gold and cocoa
- Sub - Saharan not attractive to TNCs
- Civil unrest- Close to Sierra Leone
- North - Hot and Dry
- Not good for growning
- Colonialism
- Trade venues along gold coast
- Accra- capital
- money invested in schools, roads, railways and communication
- Cocoa introduced
- Strong export
- Fairly stable - vote, democracy
- Remained reliant on primary exports
- Reliance on primary goods
- manufacturing not established
- most income from exports went to colonial powers
- Few settlements
- Neo-Colonialism
- Natural resources
- links with MNCs- China digital manufacturing
- Stimulates economy - jobs
- cocoa farming, income, fishing, transport + toursim
- Still relevant on aid
- need to borrow money
- $1 billion a year in AID
- Akosombo dam
- 8,000 relocated
- didn't use raw boxcite
- electricity sent to other countries
- Location
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